16/08/2017

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:00:00. > :00:13.and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.

:00:14. > :00:17.Good afternoon. Welcome to BBC London News.

:00:18. > :00:19.Three teenagers have appeared in court charged with the murder

:00:20. > :00:26.15-year-old Jermaine Goupall died

:00:27. > :00:27.after being stabbed in Thornton Heath.

:00:28. > :00:29.A week on from his murder, police say

:00:30. > :00:31.many in the community are still silent.

:00:32. > :00:33.Today his sister appealed for help in catching his killer

:00:34. > :00:44.Messages to a sweet, loving young man.

:00:45. > :00:47.15-year-old Jermaine Goupall, stabbed to death at this spot,

:00:48. > :00:59.He was just happy, very happy all the time.

:01:00. > :01:04.And very homely as well. He was a big kid.

:01:05. > :01:07.Jermaine's sister Talisha tells me he was attacked after

:01:08. > :01:16.He was targeted by three men wearing balaclavas,

:01:17. > :01:20.Talisha says that her family are still in shock.

:01:21. > :01:24.If someone was in that lifestyle, then you kind of expected,

:01:25. > :01:26.but when they are not, you just think, you just don't

:01:27. > :01:28.understand, I just don't understand the question,

:01:29. > :01:32.And that is how we are feeling at the moment.

:01:33. > :01:39.Today, two boys aged 16 and 17 and an 18-year-old woman appeared

:01:40. > :01:41.at the Old Bailey charged with Jermaine's murder.

:01:42. > :01:45.Police say they need more information about what happened.

:01:46. > :01:47.There is concern that some of Jermaine's friends,

:01:48. > :01:53.who were there with him that night may be too scared to come forward.

:01:54. > :01:56.I understand that they may have fear in terms of making

:01:57. > :02:02.But it is important that they do, because I don't want my brother

:02:03. > :02:07.to die in vain and for what has happened to him to be in vain.

:02:08. > :02:11.This area has unfortunately suffered from an increase in youth violence.

:02:12. > :02:15.We have done a lot of work around this with the local authority.

:02:16. > :02:18.We just want the information that is going to help in this inquiry.

:02:19. > :02:21.And to try and find out why this has happened to Jermaine.

:02:22. > :02:23.It is the question that Jermaine's family also want answered.

:02:24. > :02:26.Why this 15-year-old, remembered for his friendly smile,

:02:27. > :02:37.became yet another young victim to knife crime in London.

:02:38. > :02:40.A disabled TV star has been attacked by a man with scissors

:02:41. > :02:43.Silent Witness star Liz Carr was taken to hospital

:02:44. > :02:48.Police say a man has been detained under the Mental Health Act.

:02:49. > :02:54.Ms Carr, who's now out of hospital, is recovering from a slash wound.

:02:55. > :02:57.NHS patients are calling for Private Ambulance Service

:02:58. > :02:59.to be stripped of its contract after cancer and kidney

:03:00. > :03:00.dialysis patients missed crucial appointments.

:03:01. > :03:02.PAS, which is paid ?1 million a month,

:03:03. > :03:04.has admitted letting down dozens of sick people

:03:05. > :03:06.in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire and has apologised.

:03:07. > :03:08.It's now been given four weeks to improve.

:03:09. > :03:20.83-year-old David Gower has a severe neurological condition

:03:21. > :03:24.He's been relying on the Private Ambulance Service to get

:03:25. > :03:26.to crucial appointments, but the former railways manager

:03:27. > :03:28.has been left waiting at his home in Luton

:03:29. > :03:33.I've been let down four or five times.

:03:34. > :03:45.And this being at the back of the queue, I'm asking myself

:03:46. > :03:50.what I've done to deserve this and the last time I was let down,

:03:51. > :03:55.going to the foot clinic I'm afraid, and I have a stress tremor.

:03:56. > :03:58.And it lasted for about two and a half weeks.

:03:59. > :04:01.Since March, the Private Ambulance Service has been

:04:02. > :04:04.contracted to carry out 17,000 patient journeys every month across

:04:05. > :04:11.But, in just four months, more than 100 people

:04:12. > :04:16.including cancer and kidney dialysis patients.

:04:17. > :04:18.The company says it hasn't had enough ambulances and some

:04:19. > :04:24.It admits that significant delays in picking up and dropping

:04:25. > :04:26.off patients and problems for people trying to get through

:04:27. > :04:32.Luton Clinical Commissioning Group has told the Private

:04:33. > :04:35.Ambulance Service that it now has got just a month to dramatically

:04:36. > :04:39.improve its performance or it will face a heavy fine.

:04:40. > :04:42.The company says it is very sorry for letting down so many sick

:04:43. > :04:45.patients but it says improvements are already being made,

:04:46. > :04:49.including increasing the number of ambulances and staff available

:04:50. > :04:50.and improving response times

:04:51. > :04:53.at the company's call centre in Basildon.

:04:54. > :04:59.David Gower says so far he hasn't seen any improvement.

:05:00. > :05:02.And long queues to get through to the Private

:05:03. > :05:15.I think their contract should be terminated at the end of this month.

:05:16. > :05:19.Now a house for sale in north London has got Art Deco fans buzzing.

:05:20. > :05:20.It's gone on the market virtually untouched

:05:21. > :05:25.The semidetached house on Willow Road in Enfield

:05:26. > :05:28.has been described as a time capsule, with its original features

:05:29. > :05:34.Back then it would have fetched around ?350.

:05:35. > :05:40.Today it's being sold for more than half a million.

:05:41. > :05:42.BBC London has spent a week meeting the residents

:05:43. > :05:47.of one of the capital's first council blocks.

:05:48. > :05:49.Trellick Tower, which is within sight of Grenfell.

:05:50. > :05:51.As part of our series exploring what it's

:05:52. > :06:09.who's lived there her whole life, with her mother, Deborah.

:06:10. > :06:12.I come home from work and this is my forgetting about work time.

:06:13. > :06:14.I'm Molly, I've lived in Trellick Tower for 21 years,

:06:15. > :06:19.I've lived here with my mum, my older brother.

:06:20. > :06:22.My name is Deborah, I've lived here for 22 years.

:06:23. > :06:35.Both my kids have lived their whole lives in tower blocks.

:06:36. > :06:38.And really don't know anything different.

:06:39. > :06:46.There is less interruptions and you can be more free

:06:47. > :06:58.When we first moved in there had been quite a bad drug problem here.

:06:59. > :07:01.Cabs wouldn't even go past the bridge down there.

:07:02. > :07:11.In the summer I can sleep with the curtains open and not worry

:07:12. > :07:15.You can walk around the house naked and not worry

:07:16. > :07:28.Overcrowded here, there three of us so I have the lounge as my bedroom.

:07:29. > :07:31.And I have sort of made moves to try and move away from the area

:07:32. > :07:39.and into maybe a three- bed tower block.

:07:40. > :07:48.And I love the area, this is my area, all my friends,

:07:49. > :07:57.I'm going to try to start saving up money to put down on a flat.

:07:58. > :08:00.And hopefully my brother will join in and we can

:08:01. > :08:07.Molly and her mother Deborah there ending that report.

:08:08. > :08:12.Now the weather with Georgina Burnett.

:08:13. > :08:19.It has been so far, so good this week. How is the rest of the week

:08:20. > :08:24.looking? We have got rain on the way. Don't we need that in the

:08:25. > :08:29.garden? Beautiful Sunrise captured by many of our Weather Watchers.

:08:30. > :08:34.This was taken by Sue, in Teddington. This afternoon we are

:08:35. > :08:38.seeing more cloud with that south-westerly wind increasing as we

:08:39. > :08:43.head through this evening. Temperatures reaching 24 Celsius

:08:44. > :08:49.today. Into the night after dark, rain comes in from the West. It will

:08:50. > :08:55.probably feel a little uncomfortable. Temperatures reaching

:08:56. > :08:58.16 Celsius. And it is rain that we wake -- wake up to tomorrow.

:08:59. > :09:01.Equities through the morning. But in the afternoon we will see breaks

:09:02. > :09:06.with sunny spells and some showers trailing behind. A fairly pleasant

:09:07. > :09:12.afternoon, if somewhat breezy with temperatures around 23 Celsius.

:09:13. > :09:15.Lastly dry on Friday, Saturday and Sunday but showers never too far

:09:16. > :09:20.away. It is also going to be breezy all the way through until the

:09:21. > :09:21.weekend. Thank you very much, Georgina.

:09:22. > :09:25.Alice Bhandhukravi will be here with our 6:30 evening programme.

:09:26. > :09:48.But for now, from us all, a very good afternoon.

:09:49. > :09:50.Phone went, and it was my sister, Jane,

:09:51. > :09:53.and she said, "It's looking quite serious, really serious."

:09:54. > :09:56.A short while ago, Buckingham Palace confirmed

:09:57. > :09:58.the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

:09:59. > :10:02.because of the tears that they'd just wiped away.

:10:03. > :10:04.My sister's dying has provoked this national,

:10:05. > :10:09.It was one of the hardest things I've ever done was that walk.

:10:10. > :10:11.I felt like she was almost walking along beside us,

:10:12. > :10:23.They'd tell us how they crossed continents and centuries...

:10:24. > :10:27.It's a story that's been put into paint.